At the end of the first quarter of this year, ad-supported plans made up one-in-four of all premium SVOD subscriptions, according to Antenna’s latest “State of Subscriptions: Adds and Ads” report.
Since alerting subscribers in the United States that it would begin to curb password sharing on May 23, 2023, Netflix has had the four single largest days of US user acquisition in the last four and a half years, according to Antenna.
Three months into Disney+’s AVOD launch, Antenna analyzed the early traction for that product and provided an update on Netflix’s progress in the same segment.
According to a new report from Antenna, 9% of Netflix sign-ups in the United States in November were to the “Basic with ads” plan, making it the least popular of their plan options.
This year, 18% TV content viewers report having a digital antenna, consistent with 2021, though lower than penetration during the pandemic, when antenna adoption and usage spiked, according to Horowitz.